4 TB original 4k footage available as CC-by | Tears of Steel →

By Ton:​

You’ll find something like 80,000 frames, each in OpenEXR half float files, in 4096 x 2160 pixels. This is 5 times more footage than used in the film, including unused shots, but mainly it’s because of long lead-in and lead-outs, and of course we’ve been cutting shots sharp.

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After Rhythm & Hues, Visual-Effects Community Asks: What Now? | The Wrap Movies →

Brent Lang:​

In the month since Rhythm & Hues imploded and filed for bankruptcy, many members of the battered visual-effects community have been agitating for change. But in a fragmented industry hit hard by the cost of doing business in a world of subsidies, cutthroat bidding and cheap foreign labor, the question on many lips is: what now?

 

Effects Corner: Pi Day →

Scott Squires:​

In case you haven't heard the VFX Town Hall on Pi Day is being held 3.14 (Tomorrow as I write this) It's in Los Angles but there will groups in San Francisco area, Vancouver, New Zealand and elsewhere. There will also be a live stream over youtube.

 

International VFX Town Hall meetings →

By Ian Failes:​

The meetings will feature some VFX heavy-hitters, with a state of the industry run-down by visual effects supervisor Scott Squires, plus panelists including former ILM General Manager and DD CEO Scott Ross, the Animation Guild’s Steve Kaplan and Fantasy II Film Effects owner Gene Warren, Jr.